{"id":8329,"date":"2024-12-17T15:13:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8329"},"modified":"2024-12-17T15:13:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:13:47","slug":"drc-health-ministry-says-mystery-disease-is-severe-form-of-malaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/12\/17\/drc-health-ministry-says-mystery-disease-is-severe-form-of-malaria\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC health ministry says mystery disease is \u2018severe\u2019 form of malaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/17\/drc-health-ministry-says-mystery-disease-is-severe-form-of-malaria\">Guardian<\/a> A previously unidentified disease circulating in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/congo\">Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/a>&nbsp;(DRC) is a severe form of malaria, the country\u2019s health ministry has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, local authorities said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/unknown-disease-kills-people-south-west-drc-democratic-republic-of-the-congo\">the disease had killed 143 people in the south-west Kwango province<\/a>&nbsp;in November. The symptoms of the disease are fever, headache, cough, runny nose and body aches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe mystery has finally been solved. It\u2019s a case of severe malaria in the form of a respiratory illness,\u201d the health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that malnutrition in the area had weakened the local population, leaving them more vulnerable to disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement said 592 cases had been reported since October, with a fatality rate of 6.2%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/17\/drc-health-ministry-says-mystery-disease-is-severe-form-of-malaria\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian A previously unidentified disease circulating in the&nbsp;Democratic Republic of the Congo&nbsp;(DRC) is a severe form of malaria, the country\u2019s health ministry has said. Earlier this month, local authorities said&nbsp;the disease had killed 143 people in the south-west Kwango province&nbsp;in November. The symptoms of the disease are fever, headache, cough, runny nose and body aches. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malaria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8330,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329\/revisions\/8330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}